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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
This paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Scott Challener commented on the doc Special Session Proposal for 2017 MLA Convention: “Boundary Conditions of the Ballad” on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker (of course!).
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Scott Challener commented on the doc Special Session Proposal for 2017 MLA Convention: “Boundary Conditions of the Ballad” on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
I invite any reader of this proposal to add to the list of modern and contemporary ballads I’ve begun below, and to suggest a critical bibliography as well.
A very partial, very incomplete sample of balladry in the twentieth century ranges from modernists like Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings, to San Francisco Renaissance poets Jack Spicer, Robert…[Read more]
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Jason Gulya's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Jason Gulya's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Jason Gulya's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Jason Gulya's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Jason Gulya's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
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Jason Gulya's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
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Scott Challener's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
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Scott Challener's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
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Scott Challener became a registered member on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
As many of you will have heard, Resolution 2014-1 got 60% of the votes cast but did not reach the minimum of 10% of the total membership required (by a recent rule) in order to be officially adopted. Thank you to all who voted. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd that to my mind gives a good sense of the meaning of the event:
Academics Vote for…[Read more]-
I’m among the 1500, but what worries me more than the opposition is the apathy of those who did not care to cast any vote. Not that we are much different here in Poland… Thank you for your post.
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